July 26 - Fort Leavenworth, KS and the gun firing range

  Chris took us on a tour of Fort Leavenworth, were he used to teach and work.  It's big (although he says it is one of the smaller Forts).  It is mostly a command and general staff school now.  Its for officers in the middle of their career, helping them move to the next level.
  We toured the Frontier Army Museum, located inside the Fort, which was very well done.  Showing the history of Leavenworth.  The Oregon trail and the Santa Fe trail both started from Leavenworth.  The Fort also had a big cemetery for people killed in action, and a nice park dedicated to the military contributions made by blacks, through out US's history.
  In the afternoon, Chris took us to the gun range.  He is a gun collector.  Peter was hot to shoot some of his guns, so we went to the range.  Since I was there. . . I might as well try.  We shot both pistols and rifles.  I actually hit the target (so what if it was only 7 yards away).  I also hit the one with the rifle that was 15 yards away--most of the time.  Surprisingly to me, Peter did very well with both the pistol and the rifle.
  We went out for a very pleasant dinner.

Fort Leavenworth photos:

THE GUN RANGE photos: